Ruth Ann Minner quotes

Ruth Ann Minner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.”
-- Ruth Ann Minner

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“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
“Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.”
“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.”
“Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.”
“Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.”

Source : Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011
“The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.”
“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”
“When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.”
“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”
“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

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